Venice. O Céu de Suely.

"Four years after Madame Sata thrust Karim Aïnouz into the limelight as one of Brazil's hottest new directors, Suely in the Sky takes a step back with the far less exciting tale of a young woman from the great Northeast," writes Variety's Deborah Young.

"Aïnouz is part of a 'young generation' of Brazilian filmmakers who come from an intellectual background: 'the fields aren't very defined, there are a lot of critics who become filmmakers - it's more fluid here, for better or worse,' Aïnouz explained. He collaborates quite a bit with other rising talents Marcelo Gomes (Cinema, Aspirin, and Vultures) and Sérgio Machado (Lower City) and with the already well-established Walter Salles," writes Michael Gibbons. "What is interesting to me about Aïnouz's work is that his politics are quite radical... Considering Aïnouz was the director of Mix New York and worked on some of the queer classics of the 1990s (Poison and Swoon) before starting his career as a director, it seems he is still very much engaged in the tradition of untraditional cinema."

Suely will also screen in Toronto.

Posted by dwhudson at September 6, 2006 1:43 PM